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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Register for India’s Largest Vistara Aviation Hackathon Opens Sept 25

Vistara, India’s finest full service carrier, has launched
‘Vistara Hackathon’, the country’s largest of its kind in aviation. The
‘Vistara Hackathon’ is aimed at encouraging the young minds and draw
participation from across the country to create innovative solutions that will
disrupt the industry in line with the airline’s vision of transforming the
flying experience for travellers in India. The all-India ‘Vistara Hackathon’
will be held in Delhi/NCR and Bengaluru from October 7, 2017 to October 8,
2017, the registration for which is open until September 25, 2017.

Organised in partnership with IncubateIND, the ‘Vistara Hackathon’
will involve 20 teams from each city that will compete with each other to
create new applications and tools to address aviation-related challenges in
areas such as, tracking traveller behaviour, personalisation of air travel,
intelligent crowd monitoring at airports, system integration with third-party
APIs and software, inflight entertainment and intelligent customer targeting, amongst
other challenging aspects. The solutions submitted at the ‘Vistara
Hackathon’ will be reviewed by a panel of technology and aviation
experts who will hand-pick winners, based on originality, potential for
scalability and successful execution.

Phee Teik Yeoh, CEO, Vistara, said, “At Vistara, innovation is at the forefront of
everything we do, from design to delivery of our products and service, and in
so doing, delighting our customers. Information Technology is our backbone,
which helps us stay ahead of the curve and do the right things at the right
time and in the most effective way. The ‘Vistara Hackathon’ is a reflection of
our innovative approach to leverage on technology in our effort to change the
way people travel in India, and therefore, bring them the ‘new feeling of
flying’ with Vistara.”

Elaborating the airline’s focus on technology, Ravinder
Pal Singh, Chief Information & Innovation Officer,
Vistara, said, “Vistara is the first Indian airline to have built an
end-to-end IT infrastructure on Cloud. We’re adopting the latest technologies
to drive innovation across avenues – from maximising convenience for travellers
across customer touchpoints to simplifying internal processes that lead to
increased productivity and cost-saving. Technology will help bring about
disruptive changes in the aviation industry, some of which we hope to discover
at the ‘Vistara Hackathon’.”

Vistara continues to invest in cutting-edge business software,
mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, big-data impacting and
improving people & quality of its workplace – all with the purpose of
delivering an unmatched experience across all touchpoints as well as to optimize
processes and operations. In a
short span of less than three years, Vistara has developed a robust
technological framework to support its growth and to ensure a seamless
experience for millions of travellers.